laguna
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A young man has just started fishing and apparently he overheard another angler shout "another f*king skimmer"! as he took a walk around the lake.
Paging through his book for an identification asked; "Chris what is a Skimmer? it's not in my book"
"A young bream" said I, then proceeded to tell him they should nay shouldn't be thrown back in and 'skimmed' across the water... he should have respect for all species - even the snotty ones!
Which leads me to the question of when did we start calling them skimmers?
The young man had with him, a tattered book of British freshwater fishes given to him by his grandad C.1960 there was no mention of 'skimmers' and I certainly don't remember hearing the term when I was a boy either. I first heard it maybe in the early 80's or thereabouts.
Anyone?
Paging through his book for an identification asked; "Chris what is a Skimmer? it's not in my book"
"A young bream" said I, then proceeded to tell him they should nay shouldn't be thrown back in and 'skimmed' across the water... he should have respect for all species - even the snotty ones!
Which leads me to the question of when did we start calling them skimmers?
The young man had with him, a tattered book of British freshwater fishes given to him by his grandad C.1960 there was no mention of 'skimmers' and I certainly don't remember hearing the term when I was a boy either. I first heard it maybe in the early 80's or thereabouts.
Anyone?